Paul Flemming: Don't fix the grades, fix the system

7:19 PM,
Aug. 1, 2013

Paul Flemming

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Tony Bennett, Florida's education commissioner, got run out of his job for secret nefarious doings while he was in Indiana, not the public nefarious doings he led on the job here. The aims of both were the same: To cook the school-grades books to limit political embarrassment.

I come not to praise Tony Bennett, nor to bury him. Rather, I'm here to insist that Florida's third education commissioner in three years and his ham-handed shenanigans in Indiana and officially sanctioned mischief in Florida are merely sideshows to the baseline problem.